The Project OderAngeln
The Project OderAngeln is launching its next round of activities!
We need you!!!
Fishing for science on the Oder!
Participate in the 2025 catch registration study now, and with a little luck win a high-quality fishing reel!
The fish kill in the Oder in the summer of 2022 was a drastic event with long-term consequences. Thus, what is the current state of the fish population in the Oder and how is it developing? As part of the project ‘OderAngeln’, the Institute of Inland Fisheries e.V. (IfB) Potsdam-Sacrow would like to work with you to find answers to these questions.
The IfB is currently conducting another catch log study with anglers who purchase a day, week or year ticket for the Oder in 2025. The study makes an important contribution to promoting sustainable fishing on the Oder. With your information, you are helping to ensure that the interests of recreational fishing can be better incorporated into future management – even if you rarely fish on the Oder.
Of course, all information is evaluated anonymously, i.e. never in connection with your name. This guarantees that no one outside the project team will gain insight into your personal catches or fishing spots. At the end of the year, 50 high-quality fishing reels will be raffled off among all participants who return their catch report! It's worth taking part!
The catch log study is being conducted on behalf of the IfB by USOMA GmbH, a German market and social research institute based in Berlin. The institute has already conducted surveys and catch log studies in the field of angling research on several occasions in the past.
Weblink for the year ticket: https://studien.usuma.de/SE/1/OderAngeln/
Registration by phone: +49 30 92702815 (Mondays to Fridays 9:00 am to 4:00 pm)
Anglers with a day or week fishing licence can record their fishing trips directly into an online fishing log. It only takes a few minutes to fill in! Here, too, great prizes will be raffled again at the end of the year for participating.
Weblink for the week ticket: https://studien.usuma.de/SE/1/OA24TK_O/
Weblink for the day ticket: https://studien.usuma.de/SE/1/OA24WK_O/
Thanks heaps in advance for your active participation and support!
The River Oder is a unique fishing area that is known far beyond the borders of Brandenburg. That is why the images of the fish kill in the summer of 2022 were hard to bear for many anglers. Hundreds of tonnes of dead fish of various species had to be salvaged from around 500 kilometres along the river. The actual extent as well as the ecological and economic impact of the fish kill cannot be estimated up to now. It will take years for the fish population to fully recover, which will not only endanger the livelihood of many fishing businesses, but will also affect angling in the long term.
The Potsdam Institute of Inland Fisheries (IfB) , together with Landesanglerverband Brandenburg e.V. and Landesfischereiverband Brandenburg/Berlin e.V., has therefore launched a multi-year research project: "OderAngeln". It is intended to investigate the effects of fish mortality on angling and to develop and promote sustainable fishing on the Oder in cooperation with anglers. The "OderAngeln" project is financed with funds from the fisheries levy of the state of Brandenburg.
As part of the public participation process, catch data will be collected, which will serve as an important indicator for stock development and recovery. In addition, the social and economic importance of angling will be determined and more strongly incorporated into future management decisions. This will help to ensure not only ecologically sustainable but also economically viable and socially acceptable use of stocks in the future.
All interested anglers can become part of the research project, for example by keeping a catch book or participating in written surveys. The Potsdam Institute of Inland Fisheries will provide more detailed information about the possibilities of participation in the near future, but would like to ask for your attention and active support in this place, already. More information will soon be available here on our IfB website.
